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Chris Allen this Friday!

Posted on Jul 21, 2008

Just crossing the T's and dotting the I's on our show with Chris Allen this Friday - I keep hearing good things about this Chris fellow.  He popped into Tantra to see Mark Oliver and I play last week to say too... But yes, Amsterdam Rhino this Friday, should be an excellent show! Info under events - just a $5 cover charge, too. Do come by.

Speaking of which, Tantra with Mark was great fun. Place was full, with a very up-for-it crowd. Was immensely satisfying playing some of my favourite records of years gone by (yes the groovy kind) alongside some of the newer tunes in my box.

Seven this past weekend was great fun... Friday was a traditional progressive house night, while this past Saturday night was a private, red-carpet gala that culminated in the reveal of two lucky $50,000 extreme makeover winners. Impressive stuff - and reminds us normal folk of how ugly we are. Long night, but great fun.

This Sat I'm back at Seven for more of my usual tunes - do come by if you can.

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Almost Canada Day

Posted on Jun 29, 2008

Hello hello, just got out of the shower when I scraped off a half kilo of campfire soot. Spent last night camping up in the mountains outside of Banff, and spent this afternoon in the hot springs and lazing around at one of the glacial runoff lakes nestled between the hills. Amazing scenery - unfortunately I left my camera charger in Revelstoke.

Just put up the mix I did for Rob's podcast - but if you're the podcasting sort, the best place to find it is here.

Pretty pumped about the Ten Days of Ibiza that's coming up next week - Area709 head honcho Wes Straub will be opening up the main room at Tantra for Markus Schulz this coming Thursday, while the Thursday that follows I'll be starting the party for Mark Oliver, the guy behind Toronto's legendary superclub (#8 in the world according to this year's DJ mag poll). Mark's been Guvernment's Saturday night resident (10+ hour sets each week!) for nearly twelve years now - I suspect he'll be able to get things here rocking in a big way.

I interviewed Steve Helstrip of the Thrillseekers last week, had a great chat with him, and will be putting up an extended writeup of our conversation here, in the same vein as the writeup I did with Solarstone last month. Also, those of you who are into reading might like to read an interview (heh) with my good friend Ben Evans, just posted up on Australia's mega-dance-music website, inthemix.com.au. Ben and I partnered in creating the Interview parties in Melbourne, and since our humble beginnings in late 2005, Interview has become a household name among Melbourne underground dance music fans, having brought Andy Moor, Martin Roth, and Jaytech to town, as well as having been tapped to run the side room for pretty much every major dance party in the state of Victoria for 2007 and 2008. That interview is here.

Lastly, a very special DJ formerly from London, Ontario has just arrived in town. His name is Chris Allen, and in addition to being a very talented DJ (he just won a 'DJ of the Year' award in London) he's also the head of A&R and label management for Andy Moor's AVA Recordings label. (His website is here.) He'll be marking his arrival in style playing with me at the Rhino in four weeks' time - so mark your calendars. More info here once we've done the promo material up - but should be excellent. Welcome to Calgary, Chris!

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Two down, one to go

Posted on Jun 21, 2008

Well, its 7pm as I write this, but looking out my window you'd think it was two in the afternoon - Calgary's summers may be short, but they are sure nice... It seems we get 18 hours of daylight in the summer. To make up for the four or so we get during winter, I suppose.

Had a great time at Seven last night. Wes, Rob and I have been pushing a unique sound together for two years now, a bouncy - melodic - progressive - house sort of thing, and we've been really fortunate that the venues our residencies are at, Seven and the Amsterdam Rhino (hey wasn't that a Duran Duran album?), have given us the freedom to do so, considering that the easy money in this city is in chart-tastic cheeseball electro-house and Top 40. Sometimes I wonder how many people in the places I play even notice the music as it goes by. And so, it was nice to find this in my inbox this afternoon, from someone that had never been to Seven before last night, and to whom I handed a business card after getting a compliment on a tune.

"...just wanted to let you know that we're pumped that there's good music SOMEWHERE in Calgary - and none of that other bullshit (you know what I mean don't get me started)!"

Had a great time in Holt Renfrew this afternoon as well - they had a denim sale, so brought me in to play records to try on jeans by. Always a fun way to spend an afternoon, playing records to the young and fashionable in the smack middle of the city.

Slight change of plans for next weekend, I'm actually going to be back at Seven Friday night, rather than the Rhino. Reason being that I've got the Rhino to myself come July! Also as mentioned previously, I'm at Tantra the Thursday of Stampede alongside Mark Oliver

Ah well, into the shower then back down to Seven to do it all again.

 

 

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